Environmental-law staffing grew eightfold to twelvefold across federal agencies during the 1980s

Evidence

The Justice Department’s Land and Natural Resources Division grew into a potent force with several hundred lawyers in the latter half of the 1970s, but its Environmental Enforcement Section still had only approximately fourteen lawyers at the end of the Carter administration in 1980. By the beginning of the George H. W. Bush presidency in January 1989, that same section included about 110 lawyers and there was an entirely separate section of approximately thirty attorneys working on environmental criminal enforcement. The EPA exhibited a similarly large increase in its number of environmental lawyers. The agency employed about fifty-two lawyers when it commenced operations in the early 1970s, but employed more than six hundred by the end of the 1980s. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 516

Categorization

• SHARE: Concrete professionalization numbers on environmental-law growth — worth sharing with anyone teaching or tracking the environmental bar.
• XREF: connects to: Law-firm employment concentration grew enormously between 1968 and 2011 — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1043; Environmentalism transformed the content of a dozen unrelated fields of American law — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 28

Broader Connections

• Environmentalism transformed the content of a dozen unrelated fields of American law #exemplifies (0.78) — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 28
• Law-firm employment concentration grew enormously between 1968 and 2011 #corroborates (0.75) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1043